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Requirement

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  1. Hi,

    I've just applied for a new PP and will be picking it up in 2-3 weeks time. I am now on an 60 extension to a single NON-O visa.
    I will exit the country by the end of this month, so I will be leaving with both - old and new - passports.
    Generally, the advise seems to be that they will transfer last stamp to the new PP. But I am not sure about the "letter from the consulate".
    Some previous reports state that this letter is a requirement others have had no trouble without it.
    I am not quite sure but seem to remember that the last time I had to change to a new PP, I managed without the letter. But that was years ago.

     

    So what is the situation now?

    I will either exit via the bridge at NK or via the airport to Penang.

     

  2. I have been stopped at these pointless roadblocks 2 times in the same place but on different days. The first time said they were checking red plates on car to make sure they were real. The funny thing is that I was driving behind a Honda City with red plates and they did not stop them. When I brought it up they just made some stupid excuse and said they can tell my plates where fake, even though I had all the right paper work showing everything was correct.

    My car is a Porsche and even though my plates where in order they kept trying to find something to make me pay a fine and asked if was evading taxes my not registering it. I had only it for about 2 months, and told them it is process, they then tell me about the bombing and how unregistered cars can be used to make a car bomb because they are hard to track. Yeah, I bought a new Porsche just to blow it up...

    Second time I had finally got white plates, and still wanted me to stop and check the registration while letting other cars go by. This time after confirming everything was ok, they let me go without any hassle.

    Only thing roadblocks are for is get money for Thai Tea.

    If you drive a new Porsche in a country filled with so much extreme poverty, you should be forced to share your wealth.

    Extreme poverty? You probably have never been to a country with "extreme poverty".

  3. Update:

    Went to the bridge at Nong Khai today but was told to first go to the immigration office about 1 km down the road in order to move the stamp. For this to happen a letter from ones embassy is required which I did not have. I asked if the cash receipt was also ok and it was. I still had this receipt in my bag. It was accepted even though in non english foreign language.

    Fee: 20 THB

  4. Ok, I'm back in BKK now. When I arrived at DMK my PP was of course still flagged in the computer system and I was again asked to meet an officer.

    In a back room the man had a look at my PP and asked what I am doing etc. This man listened and thought about it and asked some more questions

    and told me he will let me get trough this one more time.

    The thing is that I do have family with a child here and can (and should) actually apply for a non O. I did get non O's on many occasions before and extended

    them at CW immigration. However recently I grew tired of the longer trip and just went over the border and back and got an extension on these based on

    having a child. I did wrongly assume that because of this extension it would not count as "back to back", so I got flagged like everone else who has done so

    without getting extensions based on having family here.

    So, everything is good in the end, nothing out of the ordinary has happened.

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